--- title: At age 10 one year is a tenth of your life so far, while at 70 it is… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: At age 10 one year is a tenth of your life so far, while at 70 it is a seventieth; this is one idea for why years feel faster as people age, but scientists are not sure. Who acts: one year, life, this, years. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one year, life, this, years), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:23 # text = At age 10 one year is a tenth of your life so far, while at 70 it is a seventieth; this is one idea for why years feel faster as people age, but scientists are not sure. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 15 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 seventieth seventieth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 xcomp _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 age age VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | one year | a tenth and a seventieth | | | at age | of your life | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | life | a seventieth | | 70 | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | this | one idea | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | present | years | | | | | fast *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **age** | present | people | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **not** **is** | present | scientists | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:23`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Why time flies and why it drags, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/22/) - next →: [Why time flies and why it drags, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/)